The womenfolk are a succession of trollops, drudges, chavs and slags, the men all bellowing yobs and lager louts, bloated and beet-faced with drink, semi-literate and narcotised by the telly.
Resembling an even-more-attenuated member of the Horrors and talking in a distinctive, deep bass voice with long, drawled vowels that themselves sound narcotised, Morris travels the world in search of new highs.
Meanwhile, he got in touch with what was going on in his generation like any good actor, and got into the habit of what he calls "narcotising himself".
Fed this narcotising diet, a society searching for heroes it can believe in is perhaps less resistant to – in fact, actively calling for – the idea of celebrating chemically-altered humans.
So, while I have some sympathy with the critic for Hollywood Elsewhere, who said: "I felt violated, shat upon, sedated, narcotised, appalled and bored stiff", I also have respect for the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, whose five-star review declared that Only God Forgives was "emotionally breathtaking, aesthetically brilliant".
Over this side, to many narcotised by two decades of the genre, the uncomplicated certainties of its voting are regarded as less of a conspiracy than judicial process.
When her relationship with Robert Pattinson became public, a couple of months ago, it narcotised her public profile – a profile that had until then been pretty subtle and quiet and under Twigs's direct control.
In the theatre of University College Hospital, Mr. Liston amputated the thigh of a man previously narcotised by inhalation of the ether vapour.
